The debate over creating a City of Brookhaven (suggested motto: We Can Haz Lower Taxes) has gotten personal, with State Rep. Mike Jacobs at the center, and a lot of whining outside agitators calling him names.

Peachtree Road United Methodist Church will present our annual “Many Moods of Christmas” concert this Sunday, December 11th at 5:30 PM featuring Handel’s Messiah. Nothing conveys the glory of the season quite like a very large and impressive organ. The Great Organ is the largest mechanical action pipe organ ever built by a British firm.

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What a shocking scoop by APN. Thank god we have APN. I’m sure Creative Loafing and all the other news outlets will be thankful that someone finally uncovered that the AJC doesn’t credit outside sources. Huzzah!

Matthew Cardinale at APN also published a Cox internal memo in September that defined all media other than Cox-owned as competition, and he started documenting a pattern of excluding mention of sources that were not Cox-owned.

You may have intuited this at some point, but APN documented and published it. There is a difference.

“On many occasions over the past year, Decatur-related stories that originate on this site – thanks either to my own efforts or to those of my intrepid neighbors – have been picked up by the AJC. They usually flush flesh the story out, get a couple of quotes and move on. No mention of where the story came from or how it ended up on someone’s desk down on Marietta Street. Was there a press release? Did the city call them up and ask if they were available to cover an event? Or did they pull it off a blog?”

Or you could ask any Creative Loafing staffer who have had their stories lifted without any attribution.

But maybe you only consider it “documented” if you reprint a memo that Grayson somehow “acquired”.

That’s different, GD. DecaturMetro is talking about the AJC writing a story about an event that DM thinks they noticed first. APN is talking about the AJC directly quoting them without proper attribution. And Decatur Metro doesn’t discuss any specific instances; that’s what “document” means.

And what Decatur Metro is talking about is not different that this in Cardinale’s story.

“In a November 03, 2011, article, about the controversy stemming from Atlanta Police Department dash camara footage of Mayor Kasim Reed’s brother, Tracy Reed, driving a city vehicle without a license, the AJC refused to name CBS 46 as the source of the footage.”

If you think that Cardinale has discovered some new grand conspiracy, then you’ve been living under a rock. And note that whereas Wheatley correctly credits Grayson for the leaked memo, Cardinale does not.

I disagree that this is the same thing but will move on. I used to read CL when their Topside Load had year great restaurant reviews from some guy who was always obviously overserved. And their Gwinnett Loaf when they did great coverage out there. Don’t read them anymore.

For the record, I think our Editor’s only comments about Porsches in the past was something along the lines of “fancy Volkswagen” followed by some unintelligible mumbling. He’s clearly not cut out for road testing. Probably doesn’t even own driving shoes and a helmet.

Purists take note: It’s the profits from Cayennes and Panameras that make more 911’s and Caymans possible. And EPA regs require some creative solutions to fuel economy to meet CAFE standards. I welcome any diesel that Porsche cares to bring, and look forward to that test drive.

As discussed previously on this blog, Ga. law addresses foreigners driving in this state. Please review Ga. Code 40-5-20, 40-5-21 and 40-5-21.1 These laws were in place prior to HB87. In Georgia the German driver would be arrested as would any U.S. driver in a similar situation. The Japanese individual was driving legally.

Yes, the Mercedes-Benz arrest was completely legit (although the response from the governor and others in Alabama was interesting). He’s not the first person to forget his driver’s license at home, but the police still had the authority to arrest him.

The citation given to the Honda executive was a little ridiculous, no?

I wonder why we weren’t hearing about international businesspeople being ticketed and arrested before this year?

Yes, law enforcement officers in all states with local immigration laws need to have proper training for new immigration laws. Training costs money, which should have been included in the fiscal note that never existed for HB 87.

Ga. law already requires minimum 20 hours of formal training yearly for all certified law enforcement officers for the purpose of educating on new laws, tactics etc. Ongoing informal training occurs constantly in most departments as laws are always changing. Training costs are already included in department budgets.